Baseball Pair Claim Scholar-Athlete Honors

Anthony Maule (Senior; Vulcan, Michigan) and Sam De Nooy (Senior; Sully, Iowa) earned the honor for the second time in their careers.

Maule, an engineering major, played in 21 games this year for the Defenders and batted .314 with eight runs scored. De Nooy claims the honor after studying biology and played in 20 games and scored nine runs while being used mostly as a pinch runner. Both athletes claimed the honor in 2013 as well.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced 257 baseball student-athletes have been named 2014 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

In order to be nominated by an institution’s head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, must have achieved a junior academic status and must have attended the institution for at least a full year before nomination.